Re: Principal or Editor?

I agree that “principal” is not a scholarly or scientific term at all. In “principal investigator”, typically abbreviated as “PI” the science part of the phrase lies in ‘investigator’, and ‘principal’ refers to administrative functions—as it does in the uses of the word as a noun: for my grandchildren in elementary school the principal may be a source of terror or admiration. 

On 1/5/17, 6:50 AM, "TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list on behalf of James Cummings" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:

    This is my understanding of it as well.  If I were editor of a 
    funded project I would use <principal> and <editor> in my 
    <titleStmt> to delineate those responsibilities.  It also enables 
    you to to have a different person for editor and principal 
    investigator as Lou suggests, or indeed multiple principal 
    investigators or editors some of whom are not the other.  I've 
    definitely been involved in projects with co-PIs where one of 
    them is not the editor of the digital texts involved.  So it 
    isn't a mutually exclusive choice. If you are both things, then 
    use both.
    
    -James
    
    On 05/01/17 13:37, Lou Burnard wrote:
    > I have always understood that "Principal" is to be understood 
    > as in "principal investigator", i.e. the person who signs off 
    > on the grant application, receives the funding, gets their name 
    > on the publication, and goes to jail if the whole thing goes 
    > badly wrong. They may or may not be the same as the person who 
    > does real editorial work, which is why the TEI thoughtfully 
    > provides both options.
    >
    > On 05/01/17 13:32, Martin Mueller wrote:
    >> Is there any activity that is “more scholarly” than “mere 
    >> editing”, if  one understands editing—as one should—as the 
    >> most fundamental of scholarly activities? Take away editing 
    >> and what have you got?
    >>
    >> On 1/5/17, 6:18 AM, "TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public 
    >> discussion list on behalf of Tryon, Julia" 
    >> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> 
    >> wrote:
    >>
    >>      On 1/4/17, 7:34 PM, "TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) 
    >> public discussion list on behalf of Marjorie Burghart" 
    >> <[email protected] on behalf of 
    >> [email protected]> wrote:
    >>                     >Dear all,
    >>           >
    >>           >What is your practice for supplying the name of the 
    >> scholar who made a critical edition, in the TEI Header: do you 
    >> prefer <editor>, or <principal>? Reading the Guidelines, I 
    >> have trouble deciding which is the more appropriate.
    >>           >
    >>           >Best,
    >>           >Marjorie
    >>
    
    
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